Malaysian cities, towns and villages

updated Wed. March 14, 2018

GEORGE TOWN: Pulau Tikus assemblywoman Yap Soo Huey will not be defending her seat in the coming polls as she will be heading to the United States this August to further her studies in city and transport planning. She is expected to be away for a few years before returning to serve the government.

"Sometimes it helps to do a small pop-up public space just to showcase on a temporary level what kinds of benefits it has for the city, the citizens, and that neighborhood." Public space has been shrinking in the world's fast-growing cities, where almost 70 percent of the population is expected to live by 2050,ÃÂ ...

PhilippineNavy commandos aboard a gunboat on Oct. 19, 2017, patrol Lake Lanao in Marawi city in southern Philippines, where pro-Islamic Statemilitants were making a final stand amid a massive military offensive. On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, an official said two militants who survived the siege ofÃÂ ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Air pollution and petty crime have caused Kuala Lumpur to drop out of the 100 most liveable cities for Asian expatriates list in an annual ranking by ECA International. The capital city is now at a lowly 126th position in the latest Location Ratings survey published by the global mobilityÃÂ ...

MANILA--Two militants, one Filipino and the other Malaysian, who survived the crushing of a siege of a southern Philippine city last year are among the ... More than 1,100 people, mostly militants, were killed in the Marawi siege, which also forced hundreds of thousands of residents to flee to nearby towns.

THE Turkish army and allied Syrian rebels have surrounded the city of Afrin in northern Syria controlled by Kurdishmilitia that is the key target of Ankara's cross-border operation, the military said today. The Turkish forces, who had been looking to complete the encirclement in a two-pronged movement fromÃÂ ...

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his deputy, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, and other cabinet ministers celebrated the event with people in their constituencies in towns and villages. They also had the traditional Lou Sang -- the symbolic dish of prosperity, health and all things auspicious.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Zamboanga City Air Force and Naval troops under the Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) hosted air and maritime patrols with Malaysia and Australia on Monday, March 12. As part of the Trilateral Cooperative Arrangement (TCA), Lieutenant Colonel AcmadÃÂ ...

Two militants, one Filipino and the other Malaysian, who survived the crushing of a siege of a southern Philippine city last year are among the leading ... More than 1,100 people, mostly militants, were killed in the Marawi siege, which also forced hundreds of thousands of residents to flee to nearby towns.

Off the southern coast of Malaysia, a futuristic city is rising from the sea. An artificial island, the first of four that will anchor the projected $100 billion Forest City project, has materialized in the Straits of Johor, the channel that separates the Malay Peninsula from Singapore. Three years ago, this was openÃÂ ...

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StarMetro approached Malaysian Society of Arborist (PArM) to learn more about what it takes to look after trees and the situation in the country, and especially in the Klang Valley. PArM vice-president Rosslan Yaacob said there were currently 96 certified arborists in Malaysia, whereas Singapore has 500.

A volley of insults hurled by ruling party officials in Malaysia at 94-year-old ethnic-Chinese tycoon, Robert Kuok, has exposed a racial and religious divide ahead of elections due by August. Leaders from UMNO targeted Hong Kong-based Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok in the last two weeks, accusingÃÂ ...

The four day training starting tomorrow until Friday at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will bring together senior members of the national assembly, majority of who are also chairpersons of major parliamentary committees, ... Learners will also be given an opportunity to sample Malaysian culture through city tours.

A police officer stands on duty outside a restaurant which has been secured as part of the investigation into the poisoning of former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury, March 11, 2018. -- Reuters picLONDON, March 11 -- Traces of a nerve agent used in theÃÂ ...

A general view of Lanai, which is designed by the Malaysian Institute of Planners in Kuala Lumpur.Project co-ordinator Juwairiyah Ho told Malay Mail that MIP spent RM20,000, mostly contributed by its own members, to develop the parklet. It now needs up to RM50,000 more to make the place permanent.

The unwelcome visitors have made their way into the town of Ingham towards the country's north-east tip, according to several residents' photos posted on social media, after four days of torrential rain broke river banks, covered pastureland and cut off towns. Toby Millyard, crocodile researcher at AustraliaÃÂ ...

GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia -- Nine years ago, Robyn Eckhardt, an American journalist, and her husband, David Hagerman, a photographer, traveled here so ... They began driving up from Kuala Lumpur, roughly 185 miles, about once a month to watch a dog for a friend who owns a restaurant in this city onÃÂ ...

In the middle of the 1900s, the northwestern Malaysian town of Ipoh was the world's largest producer of tin and its booming success showed. ... built," Ipoh grew from a sleepy village in the valley of the Kinta River to a hotbed of cabarets, night life and conspicuous consumption, a city fueled by the fortunes ofÃÂ ...

THREE police officers have been injured after clashes with Anti-Fascist protesters in the northwestern Italian city of Turin as tensions mount ahead of the country's general election, judicial sources said today. The protesters were demonstrating against a meeting of the far-right CasaPound movement in theÃÂ ...

The project under the rural and regional development ministry will now cost RM16.6 million more but Tuaran MP says more villages will get to enjoy clean ... Tangau said all the village heads in the areas concerned were called to attend the briefing to update them on the latest developments on the project.

Kuala Lumpur: South Korean-based SK Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia to invest in the latter to create blue ocean ... signed between Malaysian government-owned Cyberview Sdn Bhd and SK Group concerns the development of Blue Ocean Smart Cities in Malaysia,ÃÂ ...

The group, which controls top South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom, on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malaysian government on exploring investment opportunities in fields including fifth-generation wireless communications, oil and gas, green technology and smart cities.

LABUAN: The coastal town of Kiamsam here is set for bigger times with an allocation of RM40 million from the Ministry of agriculture and Agro-Based Industry to ... and another RM3 million to build an electrical substation at the current Malaysian fisheries Development Authority (LKIM) complex in Kiamsam.

The fate of cryptocurrency trading in Malaysia now wearily rests on the shoulders of its citizens, according to a recent report. Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, is expected to outline its stance on bitcoin in the near future with the publication of a cryptocurrency "concept paper". But ahead of drafting theÃÂ ...

RECENT announcements heralding Alibaba's move to roll out its City Brain artificial intelligence (AI)-driven smart city solution in Kuala Lumpur (the first ... The Malaysian Administration Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, better known as MAMPU, is one of the key government agencies which isÃÂ ...

New pictures captured by tourists at a fishing village near diving-haven Mabul, off Semporna, showed the marine life being cut into pieces. ... While there is no law in Malaysia forbidding fishermen from selling shark meat, Sabah has called for a total ban on shark and ray fishing, hunting and finning from asÃÂ ...

So far, leading the smart city pack are Singapore and Malaysia. Under the Smart Nation initiative, Singapore aims to harness the use of digital and smart technologies to become a more economically competitive and liveable global city. The Smart Nation plan outlines several key enablers like an e-paymentÃÂ ...

A study by Malaysian human rights Commissioner Jerald Joseph finds that, race-based renting is becoming more prevalent. ... had to brave the early morning highway crawl from Petaling Jaya every day to get to Shah Alam city because he could not find an affordable place in the Malay-Muslim-centric city.

Kuala Lumpur--A Hong Kong pop star said on Thursday she had been denied permission to perform in Malaysia because she campaigns for gay ... Singer Denise Ho, who is openly gay, said Malaysian officials told her promoter that her application to perform in the capital Kuala Lumpur in April wasÃÂ ...

Researchers have discovered a new language spoken by about 280 people in a small village in northern peninsula Malaysia. ... Professor Niclas Burenhult and Ms. Joanne Yager of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered a minority language used in a village located in the northern Malay Peninsula.

Tema MCE popularises government's 1D1F in Malaysia ... Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La, Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tema said Ghana was ready to receive investors from Malaysia to partner the government in its flagship ... The MMDCEs also craved for sister city cooperation with Malaysian cities.

"The doctors said the maid died of multiple organ failure," said Steven Sim, a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party. ... Banunaek, said a man she did not identify had come to their remote village about seven hours' drive from Kupang offering her daughter a job in Malaysia, but they refused.

Penang exco Chow Kon Yeow announces the free bus service, named Congestion Alleviation Transport in Komtar, George Town February 14, 2018. ― Picture by Sayuti ZainudinGEORGE TOWN, Feb 14 ― Penang will launch a free bus service in the state covering 12 routes on the island and theÃÂ ...

A panoramic view of the Cities for All aerial art and advocacy project at Dataran Merdeka recently. -- Picture courtesy of Q Specter and World EnabledKuala Lumpur, Feb 13 -- More than 500 participants from Kuala Lumpur and around the world, including 60 deaf, blind, and wheelchair users, madeÃÂ ...

Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy speaking to the media outside the MACC office on Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, George Town as lawyer Aljit Singh Jessy looks on. He is the second Penanggovernment official to be questioned over the project. - The Malaysian Insight pic by David ST Loh, FebruaryÃÂ ...

Taman Tun Dr Ismail residents at a protest last November to save Taman Rimba Kiara, where a proposed condominium project will destroy one of the city's green lungs. - The Malaysian Insight file pic, February 14, 2018. However, the local plan, called the KL City Plan 2020, has not been gazetted evenÃÂ ...

THE Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC), has just launched the second batch of its Global Accelerator Program (GAP). ... such as DBS and 99Designs, and government agency partners such as the National Innovation Agency Malaysia and the Malaysia Digital economycorporation.

Ihsan Mokhtar, the president of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, says the government is working on multiple solutions to address urban challenges in Kuala Lumpur and beyond. Mokhtar, who spoke at a World Urban Forum session on Malaysia's rapid urbanization, is a proponent of an attempt to reverseÃÂ ...

The villages will have a more cheerful atmosphere and there will be better security," he said at a press conference after meeting the people and ... "In his Budget 2017 speech, the Prime Minister announced an allocation of RM100 million for the installation of about 110,000 village streetlights in the country.

The documentation effort in villages of the ethnic Semang people was intended to collect data on their languages, which belong to an Austoasiatic language family called Aslian. While researchers were studying a language called Jahai in one village, they came to understand that not everyone there wasÃÂ ...

The shopping centre will feature a 18,580sq m Sogo Department Store spread over four levels while Village Grocer, which will take up 3,716sq m retail space, will be the first and largest branch in Klang and Shah Alam. Housing the first IMAX screen in the region, TGV Cinemas will have eight digital screensÃÂ ...

The newly-formed culturaleconomy Development Agency (Cendana) is on a mission to rethink how Malaysian arts and culture can be transformed into ... Yayasan Hasanah, Yayasan Sime Darby, Think City, MyCreative Ventures, British Council Malaysia and was undertaken by a consortium comprising ofÃÂ ...

linguists working in the Malay Peninsula have identified a language, now called Jedek, that had not previously been recognized outside of the small ... as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists," Niclas Burenhult, associate professor of general linguistics and theÃÂ ...

GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/Asia NEWS NETWORK) - The pre-mixed coffee that caused at least five people to become ill after consuming it will not be taken off the shelves in Malaysia as there is no evidence to suggest contamination at the main production line, said Health Minister Dr S. Subramaniam onÃÂ ...

People queue to collect water from a spring in the Newlands suburb as fears over the city's water crisis grow in Cape Town January 25, 2018. -- Reuters picCAPE TOWN, Feb 4 -- Queuing day and night for something as simple as water. Cape Town is weeks away from its taps running dry. "The struggleÃÂ ...

When the Sponge City project was announced in March 2015 by the Chinese government, 130 cities were like pick me, pick me. Ultimately, 16 were chosen to be the next top 'model sponge cities', though later it was extended to 30 cities, including Shanghai. Cool! We can already name some MalaysianÃÂ ...

Tiny Michigan town in water fight with Nestle Nestle is headed for a judicial battle with the residents of Osceola Township in Michigan, to which the food giant is paying just RM777 a year to pump more than 590 million litres of water in a creek for its Ice Mountain brand of bottled water. - EPA pic, February 4,ÃÂ ...

Johor BARU: A group of students from the French high school in Berlin is excited to experience true Malaysian culture. ... especially visits to the Chinese, Hindu and Sikh temples, all of which are located close to each other," she said, referring to the Street of Harmony along Jalan Trus in the city centre.